Prasad Incense is the brand name of incense sold by American gifts and incense shop Prasad Gifts. The incense is made by HMS (Haridas Madhavdas Sugandhi of Pune), a much used and fairly distinctive white label incense house who make incense for a number of own brand outlets in India and the West, such as Gokula, Berk, and Pure, as well as selling incense under their own name (though not easily available in the West).
These are hand-rolled sticks with oils used in the paste and applied externally to the stick. I've not compared them (by a side by side burn) to other HMS sandalwood incense sticks, but this appears to me to be the same experience I had with Primo Sandalwood / Gokula Sandalwood & Vanilla / Gaura Absolute Sandalwood and The Dhupa Collection Bhaktivedanta ManorSandalwood. They smell more of vanilla than of sandalwood. It's a modest, pleasant scent, which sweetens the room. Vanilla is a common scent in HMS incenses - I suspect it comes from the use of vanilla as a fixative, but that's just speculation. It is possible that the company use vanilla as a feature scent because it is so sweet and appealing. The downside is that for a number of people, vanilla can become cloying after a while, especially if it is used reasonably prominently, as it is here. I quite like vanilla in modest amounts.
These are hand-rolled sticks with oils used in the paste and applied externally to the stick. I've not compared them (by a side by side burn) to other HMS sandalwood incense sticks, but this appears to me to be the same experience I had with Primo Sandalwood / Gokula Sandalwood & Vanilla / Gaura Absolute Sandalwood and The Dhupa Collection Bhaktivedanta ManorSandalwood. They smell more of vanilla than of sandalwood. It's a modest, pleasant scent, which sweetens the room. Vanilla is a common scent in HMS incenses - I suspect it comes from the use of vanilla as a fixative, but that's just speculation. It is possible that the company use vanilla as a feature scent because it is so sweet and appealing. The downside is that for a number of people, vanilla can become cloying after a while, especially if it is used reasonably prominently, as it is here. I quite like vanilla in modest amounts.
Date: April 2025 Score: 28
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